Concerning Rock Music......

WARNING RANT INCOMING:
I just do not get what is classified as rock anymore in this day and age. I have seen so many great artists this year get snubbed of awards due to it now becoming a popularity contest instead of being musically creative and making masterpieces instead of catchy pop-ish music. I am not knocking the Pop genre but please know there is a difference between it and rock. It is true that Paramore is pop rock and thus a sub genre of rock but it does not represent the rock genre as a whole. As for Lorde........lets just not go there as I have some choice words that would probably do more harm than good. I just feel that the mainstream music industry needs to stop trying to water the rock genre down to make it suitable for all audiences. Rock was at one point the voice for the voiceless, the rebel's shout, the misfits' theme song to life. Now it is being painted as a happy go lucky hipster genre that is full of wimps and zero creativity( see the new "punk rock"). There are few bands that match the creativity of Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Metallica, FFDP, Soundgarden, and Seether among others. I just pray that soon rock fans will unite and see the light and bring the true artists back to the light and send these wannabe rockers back to their hipster homes.
RANT OVER

I believe it's because rock has a very broad base. Rock started with Elvis and Chuck Berry (poppy stuff these days) and has expanded exponentially from there. Every new generation added something new to the mix. LP sounds nothing like Hendrix, Pink Floyd sounds nothing like Iron Maiden, The Grateful Dead sound nothing like Avenged Sevenfold; but it's all rock.

Award shows are popularity contests. That's not a good thing or a bad thing, just how it goes. But winning an award doesn't make a band any better or worse, and I don't have a problem with Lorde having the Best Rock Video or whatever. I will say that Macklemore winning over Kendrick definitely rustled my jimmies.
Also, as a huge fan of Foo Fighters, I don't think they should be on the list. FF are the darlings of award shows and the most visible Rock band today. Every album they've ever made (except for the newest one) has been nominated for a Grammy, and they have 11 Grammy's from 25 total nominations. 2010's [i]Wasting Light[/i] won 5 of the Grammy's alone. The same thing is probably true for LP, but I haven't kept up since Meteora.

Nowadays, any song with a guitar (non acoustic) playing in the song is considered rock, excuse me, I meant to say it's considered "rock". The only mainstream rock band I know of right now is Fall Out Boy, depending on if they fit your definition on rock. Other than that you'll have to search for some independent artists for actual rock music.

The record industry has ALWAYS tried to water down rock, right from it's inception. Look up Pat Boone. Real Rock will never make it on radio or the grammy's unless people are talking about how it's destroying society

What ever happened to people liking the ramones, and the descendents I mean come on I don't want to be stuck on a bus listening to Katie parry on the radio anymore I want to listen to punk rock, rock or metal I mean all pop isn't bad but this main stream stuff sucks!

Lorde is definitely not rock at all. She's classified under alternative, I believe.
But your choice words had better be kind ones. She's an outstanding artist that matches the creativity of all of those that you named.

You know what you do with the hipster shit? Deny it the title. It can't be the genre if it isn't accepted as such. At some point shit like pierce the veil and falling in reverse was considered metalcore. That got slapped down real quick and put in the sub-genre of post hardcore.